spoon-feed

American  

[spoon-feed, -feed] / ˈspunˈfid, -ˌfid /

verb (used with object)

spoon-fed, spoon-feeding

1. to cause to be spoon-fed.

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spoon-feed British  

verb

1. to feed with a spoon

2. to overindulge or spoil

3. to provide (a person) with ready-made opinions, judgments, etc, depriving him of original thought or action

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Etymology

Origin of spoon-feed

First recorded in 1605–15

Example Sentences

Parents generally spoon-feed jars of pureed foods for a few months in the first year of life when introducing solids, but pouches marketed to parents of toddlers and older children have prolonged pureed food eating by years.

From Los Angeles Times

As usual, Wiseman doesn’t spoon-feed us details of who’s who and where’s where; he trusts us to get our bearings over an effortlessly engrossing four hours.

From Los Angeles Times

He was not going to spoon-feed that to us.

From New York Times

“One day, Demi came in with this idea like, ‘I can’t spoon-feed you anymore.’

From Los Angeles Times

“There’s such pressure to spoon-feed information in the streamer world because there’s a terror that if someone in the audience is slightly confused, they will quit watching,” says Somerville.

From Los Angeles Times